We found Ville Wahlbeck betting 4,000 from the cutoff on the river of an board. In the big blind, online qualifier Nikolaus Deininger eyed him up. "You hit the queen?" he mused. "Sevens? Nothing?" He now check-raised to 11,000.
Wahlbeck grinned, and proceeded to tank up for a minute or two, the smile never dropping from his face. "Dunno if I can beat an eight," he said, "You played it well." He called anyway, and Deininger duly turned over for quads. He is up to 60,000, while the Finnish Team Pro is down to 12,000.
Kevin Stani opened preflop to 1,000 and got one caller in Carlo Misuraca. Stani led out for 1,025 on a and Misuraca quickly called to see the turn where both players cautiously checked.
The river was the and Stani now carefully bet out 2,250 but Misuraca showed no signs of folding, calling and quickly turning over as the Norwegian pro mucked his hand.
All the players are now back in the tournament area, full of lovely buffet, and are getting back down to business. There's 45 minutes left on the clock for Level 6, and we understand that they'll be playing right through to the end of Level 8 before calling it a night.
We're not sure how it came about, but the cards looked like so when we arrived at the table:
Jan Heitmann:
Vladimir Geshkenbein:
Board:
"Nice hand," said the ever-gentlemanly Team PokerStars Pro as he collected his things, "Nice playing with you guys." He headed over to tell fellow German Team PokerStars Pro George Danzer the bad news, and then disappeared into the Austrian night.